Genshin Impact - Miraculous Whisper & Fading Anticipation // Reaction & Analysis

[00:00:00]Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome back to another set of Genchin Impact reactions. Today we have Miraculous Whisper and Fading Anticipation.

[00:00:07]Apparently, these are underwater Fontaine themes, of which I've already technically probably heard, but I'll be real with you. Much like Harshit had assumed I probably listen to these and might not do it, I didn't really pay attention to the underwater stuff all that much and I didn't really spend much time there. Not because I didn't like it, just because I did the normal like story for the archon stuff and I just moved on. I didn't really do much underwater exploration at all. I would say that like the underwater stuff for my gameplay probably maxes at like 5 minutes. So, I definitely don't remember any of these themes if I have heard them. So, I'm going to listen to them because I could use some like calming stuff and I'm assuming that's what these will sound like. So, without further ado, let's go.

[00:00:54]>> [music] [music] >> Yeah, like I barely remember this kind of vibe going on in the background.

[00:01:12][music] But all these details were entirely lost on me.

[00:01:20][music] >> [music] [music] >> doing basically all the things you need [music] to get this sort of underwater feel [music] to just ring perfectly.

[00:01:48]Of course, we'll be getting into that.

[00:01:54][music] Oh, I love those extra string swells.

[00:02:03][music] Ooh, that adds quite a bit to this. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hell yeah.

[00:02:33]Little harp thing going on.

[00:02:37]Little little noodles on the harp.

[00:02:44]Oh yeah.

[00:02:46]I'm I'm kind of wondering if I should do like an individual talk about this one and then get to the second one. I think I will, but there might be some like sy topics when I get to both of them. We'll see what happens though. So, for Miraculous Whisper, we have Oops. All sevens. Again, I love Sevens. I talk about it all the time and there's very good reason for that and there's very good reason for them to be in this song.

[00:03:09]So sevenths, as I'm sure you've heard me say adnauseum at this point, are used a lot of the time to connect to other chords and be able to expand the options for what happens in a song. It's a very jazzy choice, but is used in every genre basically just to allow for that extra length. It's basically just an application of allowing that energy to flow a little bit nicer into another chord. A lot of the time the sevenths that like are next to each other tend to just be the same chord as the prior one with like one note difference on the keys. That's really all that matters here. So what we have in this one is mostly like a G flat. I'm pretty sure that's the key that we're in. We [music] have that a C flat which is a B a B flat minor. And that's like ooh, you know, like we've got all of this like tension here between especially the what is technically a B and the B flat minor there. So we have like already some of that in existence. A lot of that flavor and again all sevenths. So we have that extra little energy that like lifts the entire track just from the get-go.

[00:04:14]That's the first chord [music] just letting you know that there's so much more out there. Having that tail leads your ear in that direction. It does settle into this and doesn't really have a seventh at that one, but it does include it later in like other parts of the exact same chord progression. And we do have more of them coming back in. And again, a lot of these are just basically utilizing other notes and other chords.

[00:04:40]We do have things like [music] this E flat minor in here that is effectively the same thing if you were to take this down as that B7th or the C flat 7th there. So we have that like evolution of these chords and the relationships that they have kind of expanding beyond this.

[00:05:01]We have an A flat in here as well and once again a seventh in there. We also have the A flat minor 7th included. Both of them get used and it's like, okay, there's a lot of that tension there, but I think my favorite is near the end when we have an A flat sus 4 into the A flat and then it just kind of settles back into that G flat for us to finish off.

[00:05:27]And again having that seventh there, the entire song is flowing so beautifully and smoothly and all these frequencies.

[00:05:35]This is why the sevens are so important, blend into each other so naturally with the uh synths that they chose to use, the styling of that and everything else being kind of lowfi and hollow. Lots of reverb in there. That's stuff that we have heard for many a year listening to music and especially stuff that is attributed and accompanied by water.

[00:05:58]That's just something that people ran with. They wanted to feel distant and also empty in a way similar to how the sea would. So having that sort of essence be reflected in the music somehow is extremely important. And that's why I got so excited when I heard the strings in there because that to me doesn't really add much to the whole distance and like vast emptiness that the rest of the song was doing. That like added land back in. That's what I was experiencing at least. That might be different for all of you when you heard those strings in there. It might add a little bit more of that beauty to it, but not necessarily give you any feeling of like land being involved. But for me, that's a drier sound. Even though they are strings and they do have that beautified quality to them, it just felt a little bit more solidified compared to the rest of what was happening in the song. So to me that starts to add in the sensation of we have a discovery like there's something profound and solid right here and now we need to discover and explore that or in the essence of like actual land. It could be an island, it could be something you found under the water, whatever it may be. But I love that they have that. And also the little like uh flourishes of the harp near the end too. that makes me feel a little bit more like this the feeling was detaching from the strings. And I think that that was kind of just a vehicle for the song to continue moving on and kind of lift that sort of connection to grounding away again, you know, like removing that essence by making something sound like it's also starting to flutter away. That's what the harp loves to be in music. And I think that there is something to be said about that. But this song was gorgeous in itself. just how it was handled with all the uh the chords kind of dancing over each other and the whole flow of it all, the vocals kind of sounding like a siren song that's supporting everything else. All of it was in beautiful harmony and that's why the sevenths were important. So this song is already a great start to this duet here. I I'm not sure, of course, what Fading Anticipation is going to be like, but I'm assuming it's going to be something in a very similar vibe. It might even be like a sister song where they sound extremely close and they're meant to play off each other, but I won't know if I won't listen. So, let's get to that.

[00:08:17]Nope, that's different.

[00:08:20]Already different.

[00:08:31]Still doing very similar things with like the droning, but [music] a lot more texture in there, too.

[00:08:42][music] More sea sounds, ocean sounds.

[00:08:47][music] Huh.

[00:08:59][music] It still has that arpeggiating for the piano.

[00:09:13]And there's the voice.

[00:09:15]We are keeping some qualities similar.

[00:09:21]That distance is still very present just applied differently.

[00:09:28]And again, a lot more texture here.

[00:09:32][music] Bit of a tension added there, but immediately released.

[00:09:46][music] [music] Beautiful [music] [music] flute addition there. I loved that flute. Just that little flourish at the end. What a gorgeous decision to have that there. It's almost like a tease.

[00:10:17]All right. So, while I said it was different, it's also very much similar.

[00:10:21]It's still in Gflat. We're using basically the exact same chords. So, they definitely relate to each other in that way. But what I like about this one is that it kind of expands upon what we were doing in the other one. And obviously, it goes in a little bit of a different direction, but that's exactly what I love here, too. So, we have that same G flat situation, but then we have changes that happen within here. Like, I was talking about how much I love sevenths and how that C flat 7th has so much body in the first one. And that is still present here, but they actually do add nines in this one. So we have which is a much more bold sound. It's a little bit more proud. Like if you go from this seventh to that one, you can feel how that like settles in compared to and you can feel this relationship in there is much more solid. And that's the difference that this song brings. It's not the only difference. There's plenty of other like musical differences with the choice of instruments and like how they applied them. But in the grand scheme of things, that's what I would say the largest difference is in the tone of the song. Instead of having something that's a little bit softer and has this lift on it, just like that seventh does, we evolve that to be a little bit more solid and profound compared to the other. And it's just a relationship thing. The notes and chords again are very similar in this song, but the feeling of it has more punch to it.

[00:12:00]It feels more like you have discovered something and now you're exploring around it, whatever that may be. And maybe that's the intention of fading anticipation as the song is named because that would be what you would be feeling when the anticipation is releasing. Something that's a little bit more solid. You finally have more of an idea of what's going on. It's no longer a thing in the distance that you're moving towards, but you've arrived and it's still interesting. you still want to explore it, but there's a lot more taking shape when you're closer to it and you can make more details out and all that, especially underwater. So, I think that might be the intent there. I might be reading a little bit too far into it in that case, honestly. But in this song, it has some beauty to it and it applies itself in a slightly different manner. Like I said, very similar on the chord choices. A lot of that A flat minor in this one as well.

[00:12:51]So, we have pretty much the same stuff and that little flute thing at the end.

[00:12:55]I thought for a second it sounded very similar to an E flat minor and it kind of was, but instead of that it kind of blends and just does that instead of going up to that highest note in the E flat minor just and that's the little interlude there. Something that kind of breaks the chord a little bit. So it doesn't really fit into the key perfectly but still utilizes notes within the keys range. So it's not like pushing it outside of the limits. just it's a little interlude, a little melodic thing, a little diddy, a little noodle that it decided to add on there.

[00:13:26]And I love what that does to the very end of the song. Not because it changes anything superb about the track. It's at the end for God's sake. It's not like it's shifting the entire energy of the song, but what it does kind of feel like is like a little bit of an acceptance like uh kind of when you open a chest in a video game, you get a little thing like a Zelda game or something and it's just like, oh, it's that sort of feeling. And I feel with the thing I mentioned earlier about the fading anticipation, making up more details, having that at the end of the song might be the finalization of your thoughts, like the I've discovered what I've discovered. You get that little aha moment and you move on. You go to the next thing cuz you're underwater, right?

[00:14:06]That's the context I know for this song.

[00:14:09]And I'm assuming that's exactly what it would be like to explore these areas more in depth than I did and actually get to feel out how things are in that area and just the exploration within.

[00:14:20]Basically, all I did in underwater exploration was literally just A to B to C, go from point to point to point to unlock the way points, and I never really went back down there again. That was basically all of my underwater. So there is a different instance to exploring that actively than I have actually personally done. And that's what I feel like these songs are telling me just through that alone. Miraculous Whisper for me really felt like it was a a new frontier sort of thing where it was the uh adventurous theme, the main adventuring theme that you would have underwater. And this one feels a lot more like you're taking time to slow down and there might be something plot involved with this one maybe or just it's a song that kind of blends perfectly with Miraculous Whisper because of how they're the same key. So you really could flow between these back and forth and nobody would ever really notice. So, in a way, as a pair, they would be almost perfect to be able to just crossfade between those and, you know, pingpong them back and forth. So, the songs themselves don't get too repetitive. Not that they really do either. Like, these songs, just like all the other exploration themes they do in Genchin, really hold their own as far as the identity that they have. They can be looped over and over again and not really get tiring. And that's the best part of especially these like underwater sounding themes, these ones that flow really smoothly into each other, but it's also just something they do even on land. So having this blend or the option to switch between is a really good choice and something that doesn't feel like there's a jarring moment of like, oh no, there's an enemy and suddenly you feel the music shift. Like it might not be a jarring change, but you could definitely feel the energy change. For this one, it's a lot more blurred. They could crossfade between. You wouldn't really even notice, but it would feel like the song is longer and starting to answer its own questions. So, that's really cool to me. And I guess that's about all I got to say on this one. I know I've been yapping quite a bit about two like two-minute long songs, but that do be happening sometimes. Thank you all so very much for watching. If you have more songs you want me to get to from Genjin, by all means, drop in the comments below and I will do my best as always to get to those. Or if you don't want to do any of that, maybe just want to follow me and support me for more stuff coming in the future, you know how to do all that. and I'll see all of you in the next video. Goodbye.

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